What do you want your children to know
when you are no longer there to tell them?

Written by a man who learned the hard way

Dimitrios Tsakmakis is a carpenter's son from Athens. After school he served in the army as a special forces paratrooper, and since 2008 he has served in the Hellenic Police, including seven years in its counter-terrorism unit and work as a tactical instructor. He writes these volumes as letters to the children he hopes to have, after his father's dementia showed him how completely what a person knows can disappear. He lives in Athens with his wife.

These are the lessons he refuses to let vanish.

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— Dimitrios Tsakmakis, Athens

For young readers too

The books are written to be read by the children themselves — readers 12 and up — and by the parents who want to hand them something real. No lectures. Short, direct chapters with true stories.

Published in Greece · ISBN-registered with the National Library of Greece · Sold worldwide